samba - Nov 2000 - Rotating Samba logs

Hello,

I have some problems regarding rotating the log files in /var/log/samba:
I use RH 6.2.

The default entry is /etc/logrotate.d/samba:

/var/log/samba/log.* {
   rotate 5
   weekly
   notifempty
   missingok
   postrotate
       /usr/bin/killall -HUP nmbd
   endscript
}

If I would like to change the "rotate" entry from 5 to 1, I always get
an error:
error: samba:2 bad rotation count'1 '
Apparently you can't just change these values...

I've tried restarting syslog, but no luck.
Any ideas?

Werner Maes
KULeuven

Werner,

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:47:17 +0100, Werner Maes wrote:
>I have some problems regarding rotating the log files in 
>/var/log/samba:
You wouldn't have if you knew about "max log size" in smb.conf.
:-)
>I use RH 6.2.
>
>The default entry is /etc/logrotate.d/samba:
>
>/var/log/samba/log.* {
>   rotate 5
>   weekly
>   notifempty
>   missingok
>   postrotate
>       /usr/bin/killall -HUP nmbd
>   endscript
>}
>
>If I would like to change the "rotate" entry from 5 to 1, I always
>get an error:
>error: samba:2 bad rotation count'1 '
Well, apart from the fact that /etc/logrotate.d/samba has nothing to 
do with samba (it is clearly a configuration file for some third party 
log file rotation utility) you should be aware of the fact that there 
is nothing like log file rotation with just one file. Why don't you 
just try "rotate 2"?

Regards,
        Robert


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